how much does dinner at a restaurant cost?

[alice&bump]

just wondering how much it costs in different areas??

we went out for my birthday last night to a restaurant that was always a nice restaurant and a decent price, just a little italian in the village. our village is now over-run with posh types and wine bars and footballers, so everything's gone dead expensive

at this place, pizza and pasta (which we had) were a decent price, like you'd expect anywhere. i had spag bol cos i'd been saying all week you cant beat spag bol from an italian!!

if you wanted something else, you were paying in the region of £20! chicken in a sauce was £20 - how the hell can they justify that?! ok fillet steak and stuff was £20, which isnt so bad, but 20 quid for chicken in a sauce?!

my dad was outraged when i told him, as was my sister - my mum didnt think it was that bad tho! (her exact words were "you're only 21 once"). but seriosuly, i just couldnt justify spending that much on something i could make myself for less than a fiver!!

so what does eating out cost near you??

 

[lauren-kate]

Just looked online for menus for places in my old hometown, and chicken in sauce is around £12, so £20 does seem quite a lot. It definately depends a lot on the place though, some places will charge over the odds for 'atmosphere'.

 

[Pops]

For a normal lunch, like a Zizzis or something, we are normally £35 including one drink each. For an evening, somewhere like Chez Gerards we would usually be looking at about £80.

If we go to our favourite place for one of our birthdays and anniversary each year, it has been as much as £220 BUT that is a real rarity and a huge treat for us and the food and wine is out of this world.

We are much the same as you, living in a very affluent town fileld with millionaires does make it tough sometimes to just grab a nice, cheapish meal - we don't even have a fast food place here!

xxx

 

[caz81]

for a 3 course meal in a 5 * restaurant for 2 people is about 2000 rupees, which is about 23 pounds!

 

[Kitten]

We tend to eat at chain places, well, usually Pizza Express. There aren't many restaurants in Crawley that we eat at so I don't really know. In Bolton we'd go to the all you can eat Tapas place for £10 or we'd go to the all you can eat buffets in Manchester. For a nice meal out at a restaurant I'd probably pay up to £5-7 for a starter and up to £15 for a main. But then I'm vegetarian so it tends to be a basic pizza or pasta dish, I know meat can be really expensive.

 

[Maffie]

Gosh that sounds expensive..... there is a nice Italian in Urmston and I think a proper meal such as venison/steak in sauce with seasonal veg is about £13-15

I know most places i've been to recently a meal for 2 would be around £25-35 thats with a drink each too. Been out in Manchester/Liverpool/Derby/Barnsley

It would ghave to be somehwere well posh for me to pay upwards of £20 per head for a main dish.

 

[princess_bump]

when we go out to our fav posh restaurant (a chinese) we normally pay around £100 for the two of us, which now-a-days with maddi is quite enough. i would say that sounds about right for some of the restaurants we've been to round here, though i now prefer a good old lunch at a chain now with maddi than going out at night

it is disgusting what they can charge these days!

 

[danni2609]

£12/£15 a main

 

[alice&bump]

i think had it been a different restaurant it wouldnt have shocked me as much, but this is a little family run restaurant thats been around years - as long as i can remember!

 

[Blah11]

Depends really. 2 of us could get fed for £30 at the chinese buffet (which is scurmmy and omg i havent been for ages ) or we could go out to a restaurant and spend £80-100 (which is very rare these days!)

 

[louise1302]

when me and oh go in sale to eat it costs around £40 for 2 courses without drinks but i recently went into manchester withmy mum to treat her to a meal and we ended up on king st it cost me £120 for lunch and all i had was soup and a stteak and kidney pudding main and she has kidneys for starter and the same main as me, we also had a coke each
the place wasnt even that nice it was kind of underground, i should have realised though when they didnt have prices on the menu

 

[booflebump]

My favourite restaurant costs us about £120 for a three course meal for the two of us, but most places round here that are half decent are about £10-15 for a main course xxx

 

[Blah11]

when me and oh go in sale to eat it costs around £40 for 2 courses without drinks but i recently went into manchester withmy mum to treat her to a meal and we ended up on king st it cost me £120 for lunch and all i had was soup and a stteak and kidney pudding main and she has kidneys for starter and the same main as me, we also had a coke each
the place wasnt even that nice it was kind of underground, i should have realised though when they didnt have prices on the menu

That's ridiculous :s Sorry but how can they justify charging you that much for 2 pies and some soup Not as if either cost much to make

 

[SisterDisco-x]

whenever me & OH go out to dinner the bill is usually in the region of £20-35

tomorrow we planning on going to Loch Fyne seafood restaurant & i want the lobster
i only get half which is £15 & whole is £30
but i suspect OH will get it as well.
so all in all, that will be an expensive meal for us!

 

[nessajane]

our bills normally come in at about £20-£30 for food and a drink each!! Im gutted if we spend more than say £35!!!

 

[Kirstin]

Usually when we go out here its never anymore than £40 for the both of us to have a main and a starter/desert and 2/3 drinks each.

 

[Logiebear]

Gosh that sounds expensive..... there is a nice Italian in Urmston and I think a proper meal such as venison/steak in sauce with seasonal veg is about £13-15
.

I know that restaraunt, The Italian Job, I love it there. I love the steak and sauces or even the Calzone, yummy!

If I go to the Trafford Centre for a chinese meal it costs around £50 with drink and usually about 6 courses for that!

 

[alice&bump]

omg the loch fyne restaurant!! so jealous, i really want to go! should have said i wanted to go there instead actually! i've actually been to loch fyne when i was a kid and the restaurant there was bleedin amazin!

 

[Jelly_Tot]

we have a place called jimmy chungs here its a chinesse buffet, && for the whole buffet (which includes starters mains and dessert) and for as many visits as you like its around £12 xx

 

[Pyrrhic]

We pay about £15 for BOTH of us where we live for a nice restaurant or pub including drinks.

At a local 5* hotel, we'd pay about £30 in total for BOTH us us again, for a couple of courses and a drink.